I learned about today’s beautiful thing while reading the bio of last Friday’s artist, Jamie Lee Gentile. This is the New Mexico passive solar house company known as Earthship Biotecture. They are a company that designs and builds self-sufficient houses, which they call vessels, out of recycled materials. These houses catch, store and filter rainwater, which is used three times. First as drinking and bathing water, then to grow plants, and finally, the plant runoff is used to flush the toilets. These remarkable structures treat their own sewage and passively heat and cool themselves.

Earthship also teaches people to build their own autonomous houses at their Earthship Academy and in their lecture series. And if you want to try before you buy, you can even book a vacation in one of their sustainable, autonomous houses near Taos, New Mexico!

You can learn more about Earthship Biotecture on their website and on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook.